That seems to make no sense at all to me. $50 a month for a db and 2 dynos has t...

That seems to make no sense at all to me. $50 a month for a db and 2 dynos has to be cheaper than AWS+your time sys-admining everything.

Now I'm not saying there aren't other reasons to not use heroku, but yours doesn't seem reasonable to me. Care to elaborate a little for us?